A Deeper Look into Deep Listening

I choose to more deeply analyze the article Deep Listening: Bridge to Collaboration. This article mostly intrigued me because of the points it brought up about listening discussed the involuntary skill required to obtain a sense of deep listening.
The article by Pauline Oliveros discusses most of her work done in collaborations of artists. She defines a collaboration as, “joining or combining forces with another or others in interactions to produce work - a collaboration is a community of effort - preferably an equality of effort.” She brings up this point early in the article to discuss her liking for teamwork and combining ideas to reach a common goal. This part of the article was a point I could relate to because in my writing I have always liked to use others ideas with my own to create an interesting final story. The next part of the article relates the ideas behind deep listening to similar ideas I use when I go on sound walks. She brings up the point of subconsciously blocking out certain noises with our ears and only being able to hear them upon listening to a recording. This lets us acquire the deep listening sense, one that has us hear the noises we normally don’t pay attention too. This is a perfect example of the way I found some of my most interesting sounds and even pictures for my second drift. Most of the things I recorded of photographed are most interesting when I listened or looking at the copy. My pictures often were poor quality but gave the interesting effect of motion. And with sounds I sometimes noticed my most interesting sound was not the one I was intentionally recording.